How To Install tesseract-script-lao on CentOS 8

tesseract-script-lao is Lao script data for tesseract-tessdata

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-script-lao on CentOS 8.

What is tesseract-script-lao

This package contains the fast integer version of the Lao script trained models for the Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine.

We can use yum or dnf to install tesseract-script-lao on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tesseract-script-lao.

Install tesseract-script-lao on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install tesseract-script-lao using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tesseract-script-lao

Install tesseract-script-lao on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install tesseract-script-lao using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tesseract-script-lao

How To Uninstall tesseract-script-lao on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the tesseract-script-lao package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove tesseract-script-lao

tesseract-script-lao Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/tesseract/tessdata/script
/usr/share/tesseract/tessdata/script/Lao.traineddata

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-script-lao on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.